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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of northern Egypt in the Nile River delta north of modern Cairo. It was the center of worship of the sun god Ra until the rise of Thebes (c. 2100 BC). Its importance as a historical repository with famed schools of philosophy and astronomy declined after the founding of Alexandria in the fourth century BC. Two of its obelisks, both known as Cleopatra's Needle, are now in London and in New York City's Central Park.
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city inAncient Egypt . - proper noun A
suburb in modernCairo , Egypt.
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Examples
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Korba is one of the oldest districts in Heliopolis.
Global Voices in English » Egypt: El Korba Annual Festival Allows City’s True Beauty to Shine 2009
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In Egypt is the city of Heliopolis, that is to say, the city of the Sun.
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Sharia el-Misalla towards the ruins of old Heliopolis, which is all that remains of the great seat of learning, the biblical City of On. And the sky lightened way down in the east as she drove along the outer edge of the fort to the Obelisk, known to the Arab as el-Misalla.
The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest
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These were, comparatively, limited in number, and in fact may be said to consist of the members of the great company of the gods of Heliopolis, that is to say, of the gods who belonged to the cycle of Osiris.
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But its flesh, putrefying, breeds a certain worm, which, being nourished by the juice of the dead bird, brings forth feathers; and when it is grown to a perfect state, it takes up the nest in which the bones of its parent lie, and carries it from Arabia into Egypt, to a city called Heliopolis:
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 06 Mark Twain 1872
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But its flesh, putrefying, breeds a certain worm, which, being nourished by the juice of the dead bird, brings forth feathers; and when it is grown to a perfect state, it takes up the nest in which the bones of its parent lie, and carries it from Arabia into Egypt, to a city called Heliopolis:
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872
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His son, Ra, the Sun-God, had his temple at On, near by, which the Greeks called Heliopolis, or City of the Sun.
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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The school we visited is in "Heliopolis," Sao Paulo's second largest favela and home to some 120,000 people.
Charles Kolb: The Building Blocks of Corporate Statesmanship 2010
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The school we visited is in "Heliopolis," Sao Paulo's second largest favela and home to some 120,000 people.
Charles Kolb: The Building Blocks of Corporate Statesmanship 2010
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I am also interested in checking out "Heliopolis" by James Scudamore, "The Glass Room" out of print as far as I can see by Simon Mawer and "How to Paint a Dead Man" by Sarah Hall if/when they are released here in the US and I can browse through them.
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